said<\/a>. \u201cHe\u2019s been skating, so that\u2019s a positive sign, but I don\u2019t have any timeline.\u201d<\/p>\nIn the seven games that the Capitals have played without Dowd and Pierre-Luc Dubois down the middle, the team has leaned on Dylan Strome and a trio of young centers, Connor McMichael, Justin Sourdif, and Hendrix Lapierre, to carry the load. The Caps have excelled in those games, going 6-1 and reclaiming a spot in the top three of the Metropolitan Division standings.<\/p>\n
Carbery did not reveal any lineup changes for the game against the Kings. The Capitals beat LA 2-1 on home ice last month, getting goals from former Kings defenseman Matt Roy and captain Alex Ovechkin.<\/p>\n
Projected Capitals lineup for 12\/2 game against Kings<\/p>\n
Ovechkin<\/p>\n
Strome<\/p>\n
Beauvillier<\/p>\n
Duhaime<\/p>\n
McMichael<\/p>\n
Leonard<\/p>\n
Logan Thompson is set to get the first start in California, with Charlie Lindgren likely playing the San Jose Sharks in the back half of a back-to-back on Wednesday night. Thompson was brilliant in his last start against the New York Islanders, making 30 saves on 31 shots in a 4-1 win.<\/p>\n
Lindgren started the November game against the Kings, so this will be Thompson\u2019s first matchup with LA this season. In his career against the Kings, Thompson is 5-2-0 with a 2.38 goals-against average and a .925 save percentage.<\/p>\n
The Kings currently sit second in the Pacific Division with a 12-6-7 record. In their last game, they beat the Vancouver Canucks 2-1 in overtime on Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Washington Capitals have traveled out west for three straight games against California-based teams. They\u2019ll start by visiting…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":327112,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-327111","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-nhl","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=327111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327111\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/327112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}